Describe the Enhancement

As of MET version 11.0.0, SonarQube is run nightly on an internal RAL/JNT project machine for MET, METplus, and the METplus Analysis tools. This was added via #2020 and the SonarQube version was updated via #2270. This task is to move that migrate that scanning from an internal nightly build up to GHA.

The workflow could be very similar to the existing testing.yml workflow. For a pull request, scan the code using SonarQube and compare it to a scan of the current reference branch. For example, compare to the PR scan to the current scan of the develop-ref branch.

Report success if the overall number of findings remain the same or decrease.
Report failure if the overall number of findings increase.

Time Estimate

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Issues should represent approximately 1 to 3 days of work.

Sub-Issues

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Relevant Deadlines

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Funding Source

Needed for the Air Force - 2771024

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Projects and Milestone

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Define Related Issue(s)

Consider the impact to the other METplus components.

• METplus, MET, METdataio, METviewer, METexpress, METcalcpy, METplotpy

The following SonarQube issues are closely related:

• Add GitHub action to run SonarQube for METplus pull requests and feature branches METplus#2537
• Add GitHub action to run SonarQube for MET pull requests and feature branches #2379
• Add GitHub action to run SonarQube for METveiwer pull requests and feature branches METviewer#521
• Add GitHub action to run SonarQube for METplotpy pull requests and feature branches METplotpy#429
• Add GitHub action to run SonarQube for METcalcpy pull requests and feature branches METcalcpy#366
• Add GitHub action to run SonarQube for METdataio pull requests and feature branches METdataio#289

Enhancement Checklist

See the METplus Workflow for details.

• Complete the issue definition above, including the Time Estimate and Funding Source.
• Fork this repository or create a branch of develop.
  Branch name: feature_<Issue Number>_<Description>
• Complete the development and test your changes.
• Add/update log messages for easier debugging.
• Add/update unit tests.
• Add/update documentation.
• Push local changes to GitHub.
• Submit a pull request to merge into develop.
  Pull request: feature <Issue Number> <Description>
• Define the pull request metadata, as permissions allow.
  Select: Reviewer(s) and Development issues
  Select: Repository level development cycle Project for the next official release
  Select: Milestone as the next official version
• Iterate until the reviewer(s) accept and merge your changes.
• Delete your fork or branch.
• Close this issue.